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is hair on the male antennae and the sculpture of the undersurface is not so strong as it 

 is in B. elegans, which these specimens greatly resemble. 



Hab. Maui, Lahaina, 2000 ft. i. 1897 (Perkins). 



(3) Brontolaemus nudicornis, sp. nov. 



Fuscus, antennis pedibusque fusco-rufis, illis apicem versus nigricantibus ; minus 

 variegatus, prothorace fortiter transverse. Long. 2,\ — i\ ^""1- 



This is easily enough distinguished by the fine, comparatively obsolete sculpture 

 and the comparatively slight variegation of the upper surface, due to the minuteness of 

 the scales ; the variegation that exists bein^ chieflv due to the colour of the surface 

 itself. The thorax is unusually short and broad. I can find no trace of sexual hairs on 

 the antennae of the male ; they are much shorter than those of B. ciirrax, and the 

 terminal joints are comparatively stouter and blacker at their tips. Two specimens. 



Hab. Kauai. Mts. W'aimea, 4000 ft. v. 1894 (no. 259) ; high plateau, viii. 1896 

 (no. 682, Perkins). 



(4) BrontolaouHi agilis, sp. nov. 



Minus latus, nigricans, antennis rufo-nigris, pedibus nigro-rufis, supra squamulis, 

 griseis flavisque bene variegatus ; antennis minus gracilibus, articulis ultimis tribus 

 minus elongatis et curvatis. Long. 3 — 3-I mm. 



This is the most distinct of the species. The antennae are stouter, with a shorter 

 terminal joint than any of the other species; the form is narrower, the head is especially 

 narrower: the base of the thorax is quite straight, the hind-angles perfect rectangles ; 

 the colour throughout is blacker, the variegation of the elytra very conspicuous ; the 

 sculpture of the undersurface very obsolete ; the tracery on the undersurface of the head, 

 very fine and dense. Twenty-six specimens. 



There is an elegant variety in which the thorax and elytra have a broad red margin. 



Hab. Maui. Haleakala, 5000 ft. iii. and iv. 1894; ^""^ 5000 ft. v. — x. 1896 

 (Perkins). 



Laemophlaeus Castelnau. 

 Laeiuophlacus Castelnau, Hist. Nat. 11. 1840, p. 385. 



(i) Laemophlaeus mituihis, Olivier. 

 Cucujiis 7nimitus Olivier, Enc. method, vi. 1791, p. 243 ; Ent. iv. 74 bis, p. 8. t. i. 

 f- 9- 1795 (nee L. viinutus Sharp, Biol. Centr.-Am. Coleoptera, 11. (i), p. 518). 

 Cucujus pusillus Schonherr, Syn. Ins. in. p. 55; Sharp, Tr. Dublin Soc. in. 1885, 



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